Remove Related Pages from desktop web beta (most wikis)
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	Feb 12 2016, 11:10 PM

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As per T125191#2018674 amd T125191#2017096, as a product owner I do not want to show Related Articles on the desktop presentation because its engagement is low, below the success criteria threshold of 5%. Contrast this with engagement with the feature on the mobile web where engagement appears to be substantially higher.

Acceptance criteria

Beta feature is removed.

~~[x] Desktop code path is removed.~~ irrelevant - mobile code/desktop code is basically the same

Communication about disablement

ht.wikipedia.org (they had asked to keep it)

~~[x] Wikivoyage already using this extension~~ irrelevant as they continue to use it.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Enable related pages on Vector for htwiki	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+2 -0
	Remove ReadMore from desktop beta	mediawiki/extensions/RelatedArticles	master	+16 -255

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	None	T122260 [GOAL] Promote related pages to production (on for everyone) on all wikis
Resolved	ovasileva	T135030 [GOAL] Roll related pages from beta on mobile web for most wikis
Resolved	ovasileva	T126826 Remove Related Pages from desktop web beta (most wikis)

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dr0ptp4kt created this task.Feb 12 2016, 11:10 PM

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Change 270949 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bmansurov):
Remove ReadMore from desktop beta

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/270949

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 16 2016, 1:49 PM

• bmansurov claimed this task.Feb 16 2016, 1:49 PM

dr0ptp4kt updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 16 2016, 2:43 PM

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bd808 triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 16 2016, 5:20 PM

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Jdlrobson edited projects, added Tracking-Neverending, Web-Team-Backlog, Reading-Web-Planning; removed Reading-Web-Sprint-66-Harry is Tired.Feb 16 2016, 5:21 PM

dr0ptp4kt moved this task from Needs Analysis to Tracking on the Reading-Web-Sprint-66-Harry is Tired board.Feb 16 2016, 5:21 PM

Needs community feedback

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 16 2016, 5:22 PM

dr0ptp4kt added a project: Reading-Web-Sprint-67-If, Then, Else...?.Feb 16 2016, 5:23 PM

dr0ptp4kt moved this task from Needs Analysis to Tracking on the Reading-Web-Sprint-67-If, Then, Else...? board.

dr0ptp4kt moved this task from Tracking to Needs Analysis on the Reading-Web-Sprint-67-If, Then, Else...? board.

dr0ptp4kt edited projects, added Reading-Web-Sprint-66-Harry is Tired; removed Reading-Web-Sprint-67-If, Then, Else...?.Feb 16 2016, 5:58 PM

Why is this a Tracking-Neverending task ("a report that will never be "fixed", but instead used as dependency parents to track related issues")? There are no subtasks defined...

In T126826#2032463, @Aklapper wrote:

Why is this a Tracking-Neverending task ("a report that will never be "fixed", but instead used as dependency parents to track related issues")? There are no subtasks defined...

Fixed.

• bmansurov removed • bmansurov as the assignee of this task.Feb 24 2016, 12:50 PM

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Removing patch to review to ensure this doesn't get reviewed and merged until those discussions have been completed as this doesn't seem to be what we want to do. There are still good discussions happening on the beta features page.

Jdlrobson removed a project: Reading-Web-Sprint-66-Harry is Tired.Mar 1 2016, 6:14 PM

dr0ptp4kt edited projects, added RelatedArticles; removed Reading-Web-Planning, Web-Team-Backlog.Mar 16 2016, 9:45 PM

• MZMcBride subscribed.Mar 23 2016, 11:40 PM

Change 270949 abandoned by Bmansurov:
Remove ReadMore from desktop beta

Reason:
resurrect if needed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/270949

MBinder_WMF added a project: Web-Team-Backlog.May 17 2016, 6:31 PM

• JKatzWMF added a parent task: T135030: [GOAL] Roll related pages from beta on mobile web for most wikis .May 25 2016, 6:49 PM

• JKatzWMF renamed this task from Remove Related Pages from desktop web beta to Remove Related Pages from desktop web beta (most wikis).May 25 2016, 6:51 PM

• JKatzWMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

• jhobs moved this task from Incoming to Needs Prioritization on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jul 21 2016, 8:49 PM

@JKatzWMF @Moushira are we good to go with this?

bd808 unsubscribed.Jul 21 2016, 8:49 PM

From my side, if we don't have plans to continue development, because data isn't promising with the current feature implementation, then we can just disable it.

• bmansurov mentioned this in T120715: RelatedArticles browser tests should run on a commit basis.Jul 22 2016, 7:49 AM

• Moushira mentioned this in T143202: Disable Related pages from desktop beta.Aug 17 2016, 12:24 PM

ovasileva moved this task from Needs Prioritization to Product Owner Backlog on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Aug 31 2016, 6:11 PM

dr0ptp4kt updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 31 2016, 6:18 PM

dr0ptp4kt updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 31 2016, 6:20 PM

@ovasileva - to create list of desktop where we want related pages

BethNaught subscribed.Dec 21 2016, 11:34 PM

I'm not sure if this counts as unplanned sprint work as I didn't know this task existed, but now would be a good time to make some decisions about it.
I think we agreed to not enable it on ht.wikipedia.org but FWIW we can enable it for all pages if they do want it. I don't see that as a big maintenance burden.

I guess this is work that @ovasileva hadn't planned on doing this sprint 😉

After discussing shortly, we decided to enable related pages for htwiki

MBinder_WMF moved this task from Product Owner Backlog to 2016-17 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Apr 13 2017, 7:12 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Ready for Signoff to Needs Code Review on the Reading-Web-Sprint-95 board.Apr 13 2017, 10:16 PM

Change 348161 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable related pages on Vector for htwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/348161

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 13 2017, 10:20 PM

Change 348161 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable related pages on Vector for htwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/348161

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2017-04-13T23:39:16Z] <niharika29@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Enable related pages on Vector for htwiki (T126826) (duration: 00m 41s)

Related pages now show on desktop ht wiki. I've confirmed they do not show on English or any other wiki.
Additional sign off can happen as part of T162213

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